Green Apple Bikes being collected for winter service

Green Apple Bikes, a local bike sharing program in Manhattan is putting the call out to round-up bikes during the holiday week. Volunteer Rod Harms tells KMAN that the organization is hoping to collect as many of the bikes this week for tuning up over the holiday break. Students from the Alpha Sigma Phi fraternity [...]

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Local blood drive collects 252 pints of blood

The Kevin Coffey Blood Drive was on Friday at St. Thomas More Church, collecting 252 pints of blood. This was the 9th drive held in Kevin’s memory, a 2009 Manhattan High School drive who died in a bus crash in 2010. Kevin’s friend from Temple University, Christine Boegemann, traveled from Philadelphia to attend the drive [...]

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Travelers urged caution on the roads as deer become more prevalent

Many travelers will be hitting the road this week for Thanksgiving and Riley County game warden Ben Jedlicka with the Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism joined KMAN’s In Focus recently with some caution for drivers. This time of year happens to cause the highest amount of deer activity on roads until the spring. [...]

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Amanda Arnold evacuated due to gas odor

Students at Amanda Arnold Elementary School have been evacuated due to a gasoline-type odor in the building, according to Manhattan-Ogden USD 383 Director of Communications and School Safety Michele Jones. Manhattan Fire Department crews are on scene investigating. Students and staff were walked to Pottorf Hall to get them out of the cold weather. They’ll [...]

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RCPD Report 11/16/18

Derek Anthony Doby, 24, of Manhattan was arrested while at the Riley County Police Department on a Riley County District Court warrant for lewd and lascivious behavior (x5) and sexual battery (x3).  Doby was issued a total bond of $10,000.00. Doby was not confined at the time of this report. Officers filed a report for [...]

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Update: Manhattan man accused of murdering infant child makes first court appearance

MANHATTAN — A Manhattan man accused of first-degree murder involving an infant child earlier this month made his first appearance in Riley County District Court Friday. D’Khari Lyons, 23, appeared via teleconference in front of Magistrate District Judge James Kepple, who read the charges against him. Lyons has applied for a court appointed attorney. Judge [...]

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German, Italian officers talk reconciliation, shared values at POW ceremony

World War II prisoners of war from Germany and Italy were remembered at a wreath-laying ceremony at Fort Riley Cemetery Thursday. Representatives from the German and Italian armed forces travel to the Kansas post every Fall to honor POWs who were held and/or died at Fort Riley. The storied base was one of 600 locations [...]

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Drought monitoring through K-State’s Mesonet highlighted during Governor’s Water Conference

MANHATTAN — During this week’s Governor’s Conference on the Future of Kansas Water, Assistant Scientist at K-State Christopher Redmond gave a presentation on drought monitoring with the university’s Mesonet soil moisture monitoring system. Mesonet consists of 16 weather stations across the state that create a network. Redmond said the data they record is provided through [...]

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New Manhattan walking trail aims to improve safe access to essential services

MANHATTAN — A northeast Manhattan neighborhood is a little more connected to essential services after the completion of the Old Blue River Trail. Local officials and patrons came out for a special ribbon cutting Thursday afternoon to mark the occasion. The 0.7 mile trail located just east of Tuttle Creek Blvd. near McCall Road gives [...]

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Riley County Police Department Daily Activity 11/15/2018

Officers responded to the report of an injury accident near the intersection of Denison and Kerr on November 14, 2018, at approximately 5:40 PM. When officers arrived on scene, they found a 2007 Black Kia Optima driven by Liangliang Gao, 38, of Manhattan was hit by a 2006 Silver Chevrolet Equinox driven by Brooke Young, 34, [...]

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